NE NEWS SERVICE
BHAVNAGAR, FEB 11
Former MLA Kanu Kalsariya and six others were sentenced to six months in jail by a court in Bhavnagar district on Thursday for damaging property during a protest against a cement company.
Kalsariya, who is now with the Congress, and the other six were found guilty under IPC sections 427 (damage to property) and 447 (trespassing).
Judicial Magistrate A G Dodiya sentenced them to six months of simple imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 500 on each of them.
However, all the accused got bail immediately, to enable them to file appeals.
In November 2018, Kalsariya had led a protest against land acquisition for cement plant in the Talaja area of the district.
An employee of UltraTech Cement complained to Datha police station against Kalsariya and others for illegally entering the company’s mining site in Talaja tehsil with JCB machines and damaging property worth Rs 5 lakh.
Kalsariya, a three-time BJP MLA, left that party in 2012 and joined the Congress in 2018 after a brief stint with the AAP in between.
